Month: December 2010

Face to face with our limits,
Blinking before the frightful
Stare of our fraility,
Promise rises
Like a posse of clever maids
Who do not fear the dark
Because their readiness
lights the search.  Their oil becomes
the measure of their love,
Their ability to wait —
An indication of their
Capacity to trust and take a chance.
Without the caution or predictability
Of knowing day or hour,
They fall back on that only
Of which they can be sure:
Love preceeds them,
Before it
No door will ever close.

T. J. O’Gorman

Ask not, doubt not.  You have, my heart, already chosen the joy of Advent.  As a force against your own uncertainity, bravely tell yourself, “It is the Advent of the great God.”  Say this with faith and love, and then both the past of your life, which has become holy, and your life’s eternal, boundless future will draw together in the now of this world.  For then into the heart comes the one who is Advent, the boundless future who is already in the process of coming, the Lord, who has already come into the time of the fresh to redeem it.

Karl Rahner

The reign of God, the eschatological liberation of the world, is already in progress, is already being established.  It takes shape in concrete modifications of actual life.

Leonardo Boff